More progress on cancer #1: How can you stop a cancer cell? Turn off its swich, according to this uber-hopeful article from the Mail:
More Progress on Cancer#2 Progress on the Prostate. The Mail again, bless ’em!
High Streets: A death foretold? We’ve done a couple of pieces about the slow decline of High Streets, as shops give way to the Internet. But all is not doom and gloom-maybe these places can rediscover their mojo as community centres, which we think is the really important bit. Here’s the Conversation:
Red is not dead We kind of took it for granted that Mars was devoid of geological activity, which explained the feckless way they lost their atmosphere. Not So! cries Nature Briefings. Planetary Science always has a surprise in store, as does everything else. Unfortunately!
In the interior of Mars, a layer of molten rock envelops the liquid-metal core, which is smaller than previously thought. Scientists discovered the unique layer by analysing the seismic energy that vibrated through the planet after a meteorite impact. The seismic waves’ speed depends on the types of material that they are travelling through. The molten-rock layer might be left over from a magma ocean that once covered the planet.Nature | 5 min read
References: Nature paper 1 & paper 2
Two steps forward, one back…. Remember all those scare stories that renewables were never going to be a practicable proposition, and we would be stuck with filthy mineral oil forever? It was all rubbish, and at last renewables seem to be getting the edge. Just not fast enough, according to this story from the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67198206
Only the Lonely Spare a last thought for this poor Scottish sheep, apparently marooned without a flock of fellow creatures, or humans. Will anyone claim her? The Guardian
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